The correct response is, of course, "duh" — but, interestingly, the filmmakers are in no rush to show us a Jew who can be trusted; rather, David justifies his devious and predatory actions on the grounds of the prejudice he faces.
Mr. Alcazar swings from popeyed befuddlement to slit-eyed deviousness with manic verve, and he is joined by a marvelous cast of foils and co-conspirators, including Salvador Sanchez as his inscrutable assistant, Leticia Huijara as his indulgent, credulous wife, and Alex Cox as a devious gringo whose actions suggest that Herod's Law, whatever its local applications, is universal.
Captain in Calico features the unscrupulous Rackham when he returns from the high seas to ask the governor of the Bahamas, Woodes Rogers, for a royal pardon, and the governor sees his chance to put his own devious plans into action.
He, too, is very sick, but to ease his pain, he doesn't turn to morphine; he plunges instead into the urgent action of a complicated, devious, heart-thumping con job.
Given Ferdinand's obdurate attachment to Luise, the chancellor's devious secretary decides the only course of action is to ruin the girl's reputation, which he duly, and fatally, does.
The nature of the affair furthered the radical cause, whose proponents painted Hutchinson's action as a bold and devious attempt to further the executive prerogative.
Wilson's actions too often appeared (and sometimes were) either unprincipled, or devious, or simply cowardly.
The Hutu-led government systematically employed propaganda to spread fear and paranoia that the Tutsi minority was about to rise-up and enslave the Hutus, so the Hutus had better spring into action and save themselves by striking first against the devious and plotting Tutsis.
But because a devious mind is manipulating the genre conventions — allowing unpredictable characters rather than precision-tooled action to drive his story — the rules of the game are constantly changing.
The crux of their charge is that a cold and calculating Hillary Clinton and her devious senior aides engineered a vast government cover-up of the administration's feckless and deceitful actions before and after the terrorist attack.
